Waaaaaaaaaaaltttt!!!
I thought it was fairly weak overall, but I loved this exchange:
Kid: “What’s on your face?”
Earl: “Oh- snails. I stopped brushin’ 'em off around midnight.”
Yeah, I was watching it and kept saying to myself, “Damn, Self, that kid sure seems familiar.” Then it hit me. “Self,” I said, “that there kid is Waaaaaalllllt.”
The episode blew. Or sucked. Or both and thereby created a vortex of mediocrity. It was boring and predictable. And it had that annoying Waaaaaalt in it.
I don’t get the Waaaaalllllllt reference.
What is the Walt reference?
It wasn’t a great epsiode. Not enough of Randy, Joy and Catalina.
Still had some funny moments, I liked the Boo Radley reference in the flashback when Randy was doing a bad job hiding.
Jim
Highlights: “It’s fun being a slave. You get to sing while you work.” And the Cheeto story at the end. Randy gets all the best lines.
“You told me the same story last year but with a Good-n-Plenty.” 
The whole episode seemed like a bizarro world version of *The Toy * with Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason.
Not the best episode but it had it’s moments.
The kid who played Alby also played a character on Lost named, well, you know, Walt. Anyhow for three or four episodes in a row after Walt was kidnapped, his father, Michael ran all over the island yelling, “Waaaaaallllllllltttttttt!!!”
Thanks, I only watch one episode of Lost. I had no hope of getting the Reference.
The Chao Goes Mu: I was thinking the Toy also. I don’t think it is a coincidence that Jason Lee is a Richard Pryor Fan, I think second only to Burt Reynolds IIRC from an interview I saw him in.
Jim
Joy: “Vietnamese, Chinese, Chuck E. Cheese, it’s all the same to me.”
I’m still laughing.
I think that was from the 8:30 repeat show. A funnier epsiode.
The incredible shrinking supporting character continues – not a single line, right? Bleh.
And the last half with the kidnapping plot was just DUM. It’s what they’d have done on Suddenly Susan.
–Cliffy
I thought it was a great episode. What’s not to love about Randy on the trampoline? Or Randy putting the kids underwear on his head thinking it’s a mask?
I thought it started well, take your child to work, the aforementioned Boo Radley, the baby escape - but it lost its way a bit.
I laughed at a few lines – even weak it is still funnier than 80% of what you are going to find on all 50,000 channels & it is new material.
Absolutely. It’s the little things like that, the Boo Radley comment, and Earl talking about the “fancy hammer” (aka croquet mallet), that I really enjoy. The official plot is really secondary.
What grabs me is the music. It takes me back to when I was doing stupid stuff and hung around people just like Earl.
“Oooooh, pretty smoke. It makes me sad!”
What got me laughing was when Earl went to Joy to ask how she was able to get Dodge to stop being afraid of the dark, Joy says that Dodge wasn’t afraid of the dark but though She was Fighting off the Boogie man when she was really doin Darnell, that is until “Dodge got brave walked in and saw Darnell plowing me”
Even better than Randy putting the underwear on his head was the expression on his face when he realized he’d just put underwear on his head.